It is on 146 acres (59.1 ha) located on the Northern tip of Saint Helen's Island. This is a man-made extension to the island in the space where the small Ronde Island had been,[2] the park hosts L'International des Feux Loto-Québec, a highly regarded international fireworks competition. La Ronde is one of two Six Flags parks not to be officially branded as a Six Flags park (the other being Great Escape in Queensbury, New York).

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The park opens from mid-May to late October, with peak admissions in July. Toddlers aged 2 and under receive free admission. Family rides require a height of 36 in (0.91 m), while most intermediate rides require 44 in (1.12 m) and high-thrill rides require 52 or 54 inches (1.32 or 1.37 m).

La Ronde closes its season in the last weekend of October. To celebrate Halloween, in the month of October, the park hosts its annual La Ronde's Fright Fest, the festival has four haunted houses, and many costumed performers who roam the park.

The park has 40 rides, including ten roller coasters; among them is Le Monstre, a 40-metre (131 ft) high wooden double-tracked roller coaster which holds the record for highest double-tracked roller coaster in the world.[citation needed]

La Ronde was the entertainment complex built for Expo 67, the world fair held in Montreal from April 27 to October 29, 1967,[1] the exposition was located on 400 hectares (ha) of man-made islands in the St Lawrence River adjacent to Montréal, and comprised six “theme” pavilions, 48 national pavilions, four provincial pavilions, 27 private-industry and institutional pavilions, and La Ronde – a 54-ha entertainment complex with theatres, midway attractions, drinking and dining.[3] Visitors could experience the rides, restaurants and beer halls of La Ronde until 2:30 a.m. nightly. The rest of the Expo site closed down at 10:30 p.m.[4] After Expo 67 World's Fair, the City of Montreal continued to run the amusement park for the next 34 years.[5]

La Ronde's entrance renovated in 2002.

The City of Montreal sold La Ronde to Six Flags, an American theme park chain, in a deal completed on May 4, 2001, it acquired all of the assets of the park for $20 million USD and has a long-term contract to lease the land from the city. Before the announcement of the Six Flags purchase, the city had considered offers from other bidders including Paramount Parks, Cedar Fair, and Parc Astérix. Since then, Six Flags has invested around $90 million in new rides and improvements,[6] such as Le Vampire, Splash, Le Goliath and Ednör - L'Attaque as well as a new main entrance.

The amusement park was used as a backdrop in the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "Laughing in the Dark" (season 1, episode 2) and was given the fictional name "Playland". The episode featured the park's iconic giant roller coaster, haunted house with a dragon on the front and its old-fashioned carousel.

La Ronde had a Nintendo-sponsored video game centre with the latest Nintendo video games and attractions, since 2009, the former 3D theatre has housed Nintendo DS and Wii consoles, advertisements and a Nintendo Store.

View from the top of Le Monstre at La Ronde amusement park. The Goliath is the red, yellow and blue ride to the north

In May 2006, La Ronde opened its ninth roller coaster, Goliath (La Ronde), a 53-metre (174 ft) high Bolliger & Mabillard mega coaster. It reaches speeds of 110 km/h (68 mph), making it the third tallest and the third fastest roller coaster in Canada. For the 2007 season, La Ronde painted its iconic observation tower bright orange to advertise Pizza Pizza, an Ontario pizza chain that, at the time, was just emerging into the Quebec market. All of the pizza stands inside the park were renamed from Pizza Ronde to Pizza Pizza.

In January 2009, La Ronde announced its intention to become a Six Flags branded park, using the rights to Warner Bros. and DC Comics trademarks under the licensing agreement with Six Flags.[9] Le Vampire, a mirror image of Batman: The Ride constructed in 2002, carries no association to the Batman media franchise because the licence with Warner Bros. and DC Comics is not valid in unbranded Six Flags parks.[10] It is yet unknown if Le Vampire will be re-branded to Batman: The Ride once the branding of the park commences.

The Serial Thriller, a VekomaSuspended Looping Coaster that used to be located at the now defunct Six Flags AstroWorld, has been shipped to La Ronde from the Great Escape, another Six Flags property where it lay in storage since 2005. The roller coaster, which opened in 1999 at Six Flags AstroWorld, has been installed over the Lac des Dauphins at the park for the 2010 season and is named Ednör - L'Attaque,[11] it features special effects and theming from an alleged sea monster that was reported to have appeared in the Lac des Dauphins.[12]

On January 19, 2012, Six Flags announced Vol Ultime at La Ronde; it is similar to the SkyScreamers and it is 45-metre (148 ft) tall.[14][15]

In 2013, the park opened a water-themed attraction, Aqua Twist.

On August 29, 2013, Six Flags announced the addition of Demon, a top spin ride, for the 2014 season,[16] as a world premiere, Goliath was the first roller coaster equipped and exploited with virtual reality headset.

On August 28, 2014, Six Flags announced Maison Rouge, a haunted house, for the 2015 season.[17]

On September 3, 2015, Six Flags announced Avenue Aventure, a section of the park which includes Bateau Pirate, Condor and two new rides ; Phoenix, a Larson flying scooters and Gravitor, a Chance Falling Star from Six Flags St. Louis.[18]

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Montreal
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Montreal, officially Montréal, is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the 2nd-most populous in Canada as a whole. Originally called Ville-Marie, or City of Mary, it is believed to be named after Mount Royal, the city has a distinct four-season continental climate, with warm-to-hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In 2016, Montreal had a population of 1,704,694, Montreals metropolitan area had a population of 4,098,927 and a population of 1,958,257 in the urban agglomeration, with all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included. Legally a French-speaking city,60. 5% of Montrealers speak French at home,21. 2% speak English and 19. 8% speak neither, Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 56% of the population able to speak both official languages. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world after Paris, historically the commercial capital of Canada, it was surpassed in population and economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, culture, tourism, gaming, film, Montreal was also named a UNESCO City of Design. In 2009, Montreal was named North Americas leading host city for international events, according to the 2009 preliminary rankings of the International Congress. According to the 2015 Global Liveability Ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in the 2017 edition of their Best Student Cities ranking, Quacquarelli Symonds ranked Montreal as the worlds best city to study abroad. Also, Montreal has 11 universities with 170,000 students enrolled, the Greater Montréal region has the highest number of university students per capita among all metropolitan areas in North America. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics, currently, the city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One, the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Just for Laughs festival. In 2012, Montreal was ranked as a Beta+ world city, in Kanien’kéha, or Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià, ke Tsi or Ka-wé-no-te. In Anishinaabemowin, or Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang, though the city was first named by French colonizers Ville Marie, or City of Mary, its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The most popular theory is that the name derives from Mont Réal, Cartiers 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, according to the Commission de toponymie du Québec and the Geographical Names Board of Canada, Canadian place names have only one official form. Thus, Montreal is officially spelled with an accent over the e in both English and French. In practice, this is limited to governmental uses. English-speaking Montrealers, including English-language media, regularly omit the accent when writing in English, archaeological evidence demonstrates that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD1000, they had started to cultivate maize, within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at locations in the valley since at least the 14th century

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Quebec
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Quebec is the second-most populous province of Canada and the only one to have a predominantly French-speaking population, with French as the sole provincial official language. Quebec is Canadas largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division and it also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canadas second-most populous province, after Ontario, most inhabitants live in urban areas near the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City, the capital. Approximately half of Quebec residents live in the Greater Montreal Area, the Nord-du-Québec region, occupying the northern half of the province, is sparsely populated and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal peoples. Even in central Quebec at comparatively southerly latitudes winters are severe in inland areas, Quebec independence debates have played a large role in the politics of the province. Parti Québécois governments held referendums on sovereignty in 1980 and 1995, in 2006, the House of Commons of Canada passed a symbolic motion recognizing the Québécois as a nation within a united Canada. These many industries have all contributed to helping Quebec become an economically influential province within Canada, early variations in the spelling of the name included Québecq and Kébec. French explorer Samuel de Champlain chose the name Québec in 1608 for the colonial outpost he would use as the seat for the French colony of New France. The province is sometimes referred to as La belle province, the Province of Quebec was founded in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 after the Treaty of Paris formally transferred the French colony of Canada to Britain after the Seven Years War. The proclamation restricted the province to an area along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River, the Treaty of Versailles ceded territories south of the Great Lakes to the United States. After the Constitutional Act of 1791, the territory was divided between Lower Canada and Upper Canada, with each being granted an elected legislative assembly, in 1840, these become Canada East and Canada West after the British Parliament unified Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. This territory was redivided into the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario at Confederation in 1867, each became one of the first four provinces. In 1898, the Canadian Parliament passed the first Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal peoples. This was followed by the addition of the District of Ungava through the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act of 1912 that added the northernmost lands of the Inuit to create the modern Province of Quebec. In 1927, the border between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador was established by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Located in the part of Canada, and part of Central Canada. Its topography is very different from one region to another due to the composition of the ground, the climate. The Saint Lawrence Lowland and the Canadian Shield are the two main regions, and are radically different

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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day

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Geographical coordinates
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation

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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation

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Six Flags
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Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, or simply Six Flags, is an amusement park corporation based in the United States, with properties in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It is the largest amusement park based on the number of properties it owns. The company maintains 18 properties throughout North America consisting of parks, thrill parks, water parks. In 2009, Six Flags properties hosted 23.9 million guests, the company was founded in Texas and took its name from its first property Six Flags Over Texas. The company maintains an office in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and its headquarters are in Grand Prairie. On June 13,2009, the corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and it successfully exited the restructuring on May 3,2010. The name Six Flags refers to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas, Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America. The original park was split into regions, such as the Spain and Mexico section which featured Spanish-themed rides, attractions. The Six Flags chain originated in 1957 with the creation of The Great Southwest Corporation by Angus G. Wynne, construction of Six Flags Over Texas started in 1960, and the park was opened the next year for a short season. The first park initially featured a Native American village, a ride, a railroad, some Wild West shows, a stagecoach ride, and Skull Island. The original park, in Arlington was sold in 1966 to a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with the new owners came a more abundant supply of capital for geographic expansion and park additions. Six Flags opened Six Flags Over Georgia in 1967 and Six Flags Over Mid-America in 1971, the company continued to grow by acquiring independent parks. Six Flags purchased AstroWorld in Houston, Texas in 1975, Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey in 1977 and these purchases were followed by Penn Central selling assets to Bally Manufacturing in 1982. In 1984, the Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois was acquired from the Marriott hotel chain, also in 1984, as a result of its acquisition of Great America, Six Flags acquired the rights to Time Warner/Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated characters for use in Six Flags properties, Bally surrendered control of the chain to Wesray Capital Corporation in a 1987 leveraged buyout. Time Warner purchased the stake in Six Flags in 1993, changing the companys name from Six Flags Corp. to Six Flags Theme Parks. In 1996, Six Flags began to manage Fiesta Texas theme park in San Antonio, Texas, Premier Parks originally operated as the Tierco Group, Inc. an Oklahoma-based real estate company. The company purchased the Frontier City theme park in Oklahoma City in 1982 for $1.2 million, company officials described Frontier City as beat up and run down, they planned to demolish it, subdivide the land, and build a shopping center

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Amusement park
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An amusement park or theme park is a group of entertainment attractions, rides, and other events in a location for the enjoyment of large numbers of people. Theme parks, a type of amusement park, are usually much more intricately themed to a certain subject or group of subjects than normal amusement parks. Amusement parks evolved from European fairs and pleasure gardens, which were created for peoples recreation, Worlds fairs and expositions were another influence on the development of the amusement park industry. In common language, the theme park and amusement park are often synonymous. However, a park can be regarded as a distinct style of amusement park. A theme park has landscaping, buildings, and attractions that are based on one or more specific themes or stories. The amusement park evolved from three earlier traditions, the oldest being the periodic fair of the Middle Ages - one of the earliest was the Bartholomew Fair in England, the worlds oldest amusement park appeared in the Continent. Bakken at Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen, Denmark, opened in 1583, a wave of innovation in the 1860s and 1870s created mechanical rides, such as the steam-powered carousel, and its derivatives. This inaugurated the era of the modern funfair ride, as the classes were increasingly able to spend their surplus wages on entertainment. The second influence was the pleasure garden, one of the earliest gardens was the Vauxhall Gardens, founded in 1661 in London. By the late 18th century, the site had a fee for its many attractions. It regularly drew crowds, with its paths being noted for romantic assignations, tightrope walkers, hot air balloon ascents, concerts. Although the gardens were designed for the elites, they soon became places of great social diversity. Public firework displays were put on at Marylebone Gardens, and Cremorne Gardens offered music, dancing, prater in Vienna, Austria, was opened in 1766. The concept of a park for amusement was further developed with the beginning of the worlds fairs. The first World fair began in 1851 with the construction of the landmark Crystal Palace in London, the purpose of the exposition was to celebrate the industrial achievement of the nations of the world and it was designed to educate and entertain the visitors. American cities and business saw the worlds fair as a way of demonstrating economic. The Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Illinois was an precursor to the modern amusement park

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Expo 67
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It is considered to be the most successful Worlds Fair of the 20th century with the most attendees to that date and 62 nations participating. It also set the attendance record for a worlds fair. Expo 67 was Canadas main celebration during its centennial year, the project was not well supported in Canada at first. It took the determination of Montreals mayor, Jean Drapeau, defying a computer analysis that said it could not be done, the fair opened on time. After Expo 67 ended in October 1967, the site and most of the continued on as an exhibition called Man and His World. By that time, most of the buildings — which had not been designed to last beyond the original exhibition — had deteriorated and were dismantled. Today, the islands hosted the world exhibition are mainly used as parkland and for recreational use. The exposition was offered first to Toronto but politicians there rejected the idea, however, Montreals mayor, Sarto Fournier, backed the proposal, allowing Canada to make a bid to the Bureau International des Expositions. At the BIEs May 5,1960 meeting in Paris, Moscow was awarded the fair after five rounds of voting that eliminated Austrias, in April 1962, the Soviets scrapped plans to host the fair because of financial constraints and security concerns. Montreals new mayor, Jean Drapeau, lobbied the Canadian government to try again for the fair, several sites were proposed as the main Expo grounds. One location that was considered was Mount Royal Park, to the north of the downtown core, but it was Drapeaus idea to create new islands in the St. Lawrence river, and to enlarge the existing Saint Helens Island. The choice overcame opposition from Montreals surrounding municipalities, and also prevented land speculation, Expo did not get off to a smooth start, in 1963, many top organizing committee officials resigned. Another more likely reason for the resignations was that on April 22,1963. Canadian diplomat Pierre Dupuy was named Commissioner General, after Diefenbaker appointee Paul Bienvenu resigned from the post in 1963, one of the main responsibilities of the Commissioner General was to attract other nations to build pavilions at Expo. Dupuy would spend most of 1964 and 1965 soliciting 125 countries, dupuys right-hand man was Robert Fletcher Shaw, the deputy commissioner general and vice-president of the corporation. He also replaced a Diefenbaker appointee, C. F, Shaw was a professional engineer and builder, and is widely credited for the total building of the Exhibition. Dupuy hired Andrew Kniewasser as the general manager, the management group became known as Les Durs - the tough guys - and they were in charge of creating, building and managing Expo. To this group the chief architect Édouard Fiset was added, all ten were honoured by the Canadian government as recipients of the Order of Canada, Companions for Dupuy and Shaw, Officers for the others

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World's fair
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A worlds fair, world fair, world exposition, or universal exposition is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in varying parts of the world, the next world Expo is Expo 2020 and is to be held in Dubai, UAE. Since the 1928 Convention Relating to International Exhibitions came into force, bIE-approved fairs are of three types, universal, specialized and horticultural. They usually last from three weeks to six months, Worlds fairs originated in the French tradition of national exhibitions, a tradition that culminated with the French Industrial Exposition of 1844 held in Paris. This fair was followed by other exhibitions in continental Europe. The best-known first World Expo was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, in 1851, under the title Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. The Great Exhibition, as it is called, was an idea of Prince Albert, Queen Victorias husband. It influenced the development of aspects of society, including art-and-design education, international trade and relations. This expo was the most obvious precedent for the international exhibitions, later called worlds fairs. Since their inception in 1851, the character of world expositions has evolved, three eras can be distinguished, the era of industrialization, the era of cultural exchange, and the era of nation branding. The first era could be called the era of industrialization and covered, roughly, in these days, world expositions were especially focused on trade, and were famous for the display of technological inventions and advancements. World expositions were the platforms where the state-of-the-art in science and technology from around the world were brought together, inventions such as the telephone were first presented during this era. An important part of the image of worlds fairs stems from this first era, the 1939–40 New York Worlds Fair diverged from the original focus of the worlds fair expositions. From then on, worlds fairs adopted specific cultural themes, they forecasted a future for society. Technological innovations were no longer the primary exhibits at fairs, the fairs encouraged effective intercultural communication for the exchange of innovation. The 1967 International and Universal Exposition in Montreal was promoted under the name Expo 67, event organizers retired the term worlds fair in favor of expo. From Expo 88 in Brisbane onwards, countries started to use world expositions more widely, finland, Japan, Canada, France and Spain are cases in point. A large study by Tjaco Walvis called Expo 2000 Hanover in Numbers showed that improving national image was the primary goal for 73% of the countries at Expo 2000

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Saint Helen's Island
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Saint Helens Island is an island in the Saint Lawrence River, in the territory of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is situated immediately southeast of the Island of Montreal, in the extreme southwest of Quebec and it forms part of the Hochelaga Archipelago. The Le Moyne Channel separates it from Notre Dame Island, Saint Helens Island and Notre Dame Island together make up Parc Jean-Drapeau. It was named in 1611 by Samuel de Champlain in honour of his wife, Hélène de Champlain, the island belonged to the Le Moyne family of Longueuil from 1665 until 1818, when it was purchased by the British government. A fort, powderhouse and blockhouse were built on the island as defences for the city, in 1838 plans were in place by the British Ordnance Department to establish an observatory, but it was moved to Toronto instead. The newly formed Canadian government acquired the island in 1870, it was converted into a park in 1874. The public used it as a beach and swam in the river, in the 1940s, during World War II, Saint Helens Island, along with various other regions within Canada, such as the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and Hull, Quebec, had Prisoner-of-war camps. St. Helens prison was number forty seven and remained unnamed just like most of Canadas other war prisons, the prisoners of war were sorted and classified into categories including their nationality and civilian or military status. In this camp, POWs were mostly of Italian and German nationality, also, prisoners were forced into hard labour which included farming and lumbering the land. By 1944 the camp would be closed and shortly afterwards destroyed because of a report on the treatment of prisoners. The archipelago of which Saint Helens Island is a part was chosen as the site of Expo 67, in preparation for Expo 67, the island was greatly enlarged and consolidated with several nearby islands, using earth excavated during the construction of the Montreal metro. The nearby island, Notre Dame Island, was built from scratch, after Expo, the site continued to be used as a fairground, now under the name Man and His World or Terre des Hommes. Most of the Expo installations were dismantled and the island was returned to parkland, several important attractions are found on the island, including the Stewart Museum, the La Ronde amusement park, the Biosphere, and an Aquatic Complex that includes three exterior pools. During the summer season, on Sundays, electronic music fans can enjoy live DJs during the Piknic Elektronic event, the island can be accessed by public transit, by car, by bicycle or by foot. The Concordia Bridge links St. Helens Island to Montreals Cité du Havre neighbourhood on the Island of Montreal as well as Notre Dame Island, the island is also accessible via the Jacques Cartier Bridge from both the Island of Montreal and Longueuil on the south shore. The Yellow Line of the Montreal Metro has a stop on St. Helens Island, “Blockhouses in Canada, 1749-1841, a Comparative Report and Catalogue. ”Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Canadian Historic Site,1980. Parc Jean-Drapeau Site Internet de la Biosphère - The Biosphères Web Site Sainte-Hélène Island at Expo 67

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Great Escape (amusement park)
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Great Escape is an amusement and water park owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corp. It is located approximately 60 miles north of Albany, in Queensbury, New York, but is advertised as being in Lake George, New York and it is one of two Six Flags parks not to be officially branded with the Six Flags name. The Great Escape was opened in 1954 as Storytown USA, a Mother Goose themed amusement park by businessman Charles Wood who bought the land with his wife for $75,000. In 1957, realizing that the park was geared only toward small children, the park opened its Ghosttown area, in 1983, the park officially changed its name from Storytown USA to The Great Escape. For publicity, the park placed bumper stickers on every car in the parking lot and this practice stopped a few years later due to complaints, and employees switched to offering bumper stickers free of charge to any willing customer. In 1984, The Great Escape opened the Steamin Demon, the first of its eventual seven roller coasters, the showpiece attraction at The Great Escape is the Comet. Re-opened at The Great Escape in 1994, this roller coaster already had a 41-year history as The Comet at Crystal Beach and it was saved shortly after the park closed down forever after the 1988 season. Roller coaster enthusiasts recognize it as one of the best wooden roller coasters in North America, in February 2006, The Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark opened up with positive reviews and sold out weekends throughout the first month. This major addition includes a 38,000 square feet waterpark exclusively for lodge guests and this is New York States first indoor waterpark. The park debuted several new features for the 2006 season and these included character greetings from the likes of the whole Justice League. For the 2007 season, The Great Escape re-themed their dive show to a themed show, branded their pizza restaurant a Papa Johns. Other milestones include,1954 — Charles Wood opens Storytown USA,1957 — Ghosttown section of the park is opened. }1960 — Jungleland section of the park is opened. 1967 — Alice in Wonderland walk through adventure is opened,1982 — Addition of about eight adult spinning rides. 1983 — Name change from Storytown USA to Great Escape Fun Park along with the addition of a few other adult rides,1984 — Addition of Steamin Demon, an Arrow Dynamics 3-inversion roller coaster, which was previously installed at Pontchartrain Beach as Ragin Cajun. 1986 — Opening of Raging River, an Intamin river rafting ride,1994 — A used wooden track and steel frame roller coaster called the Comet was brought from Crystal Beach, Ontario and reassembled at Great Escape and opened, giving the park three roller coasters. 1995 — Great Escape opens its water park, Splashwater Kingdom,1996 — Acquisition by Premier Parks, which later bought and changed its name to Six Flags. 1997 — Addition of Boomerang, Coast to Coaster, a Vekoma Boomerang, was and currently is still the tallest roller coaster at the park. 1998 — Addition of Alpine Bobsled, an Intamin alpine themed bobsled roller coaster,1999 — Addition of Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon, an indoor Schwarzkopf Jet Star featuring four-person cars, but only operated with two people

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Roller coaster
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A roller coaster is an amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. LaMarcus Adna Thompson obtained a patent regarding roller coasters on January 20,1885, which were out of wood. In essence a specialized railroad system, a roller coaster consists of a track that rises in designed patterns, the track does not necessarily have to be a complete circuit, as shuttle roller coasters demonstrate. Most roller coasters have multiple cars in which passengers sit and are restrained, two or more cars hooked together are called a train. Some roller coasters, notably wild mouse coasters, run with single cars. Built in the 17th century, the slides were built to a height of between 21 and 24 m, consisted of a 50-degree drop, and were reinforced by wooden supports. Some historians say the first roller coaster was built under the orders of Russias Catherine the Great in the Gardens of Oranienbaum in St. Petersburg in the year 1784, other historians believe that the first modern roller coaster was built by the French. The name Russian Mountains to designate a roller coaster is preserved in many Romance languages, however, the Russian term for roller coasters is американские горки, which means American mountains in Russian. In 1827, a company in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania constructed the Mauch Chunk gravity railroad. By the 1850s, the Gravity Road was providing rides to thrill-seekers for 50 cents a ride, Railway companies used similar tracks to provide amusement on days when ridership was low. Using this idea as a basis, LaMarcus Adna Thompson began work on a gravity Switchback Railway that opened at Coney Island in Brooklyn and this track design was soon replaced with an oval complete circuit. In 1885, Phillip Hinkle introduced the first full-circuit coaster with a hill, the Gravity Pleasure Road. Not to be outdone, in 1886 Thompson patented his design of roller coaster that included dark tunnels with painted scenery. Scenic Railways were to be found in amusement parks across the county, by 1919, the first underfriction roller coaster had been developed by John Miller. Soon, roller coasters spread to amusement parks all around the world, perhaps the best known historical roller coaster, Cyclone, was opened at Coney Island in 1927. The Great Depression marked the end of the first golden age of roller coasters and this lasted until 1972, when the Racer was built at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Designed by John Allen, the instant success of the Racer began a golden age. In 1959, Disneyland introduced a breakthrough with Matterhorn Bobsleds

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Le Monstre
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Le Monstre is a wooden roller coaster at La Ronde amusement park in Montreal, Canada. Le Monstre is the largest wooden roller coaster in Canada and is also the tallest two-track wooden roller coaster in the world. Being 39.9 meters tall, it does not surpass the height of one of the newest attractions at La Ronde, Goliath, le Monstre includes a hard first drop, and airtime hills, and has a top speed of 59.7 miles per hour. The first track of the ride opened in 1985, but a track was built for the 1986 season. This newer track does not run parallel to the first, La Ronde once replaced the seats for new seats with safety belts, but were removed to classic bars at the request of riders. The seats have one lapbar for each row, as well as an individual seatbelt that attaches to the seat instead of the seat. This allows riders to float during airtime because the seatbelt does not come down to the seat even when fully tightened, the ride was constructed by Martin & Vleminckx. Riders must be over 1.32 m to ride the coaster, riders are seated 2 across in 2 rows spanning 5 cars, for a total of 20 riders per train. Le Monstre has four trains,2 in each track, description of Monstre at La Ronde official website Rollercoaster database

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United States dollar
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The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution. It is divided into 100 smaller cent units, the circulating paper money consists of Federal Reserve Notes that are denominated in United States dollars. The U. S. dollar was originally commodity money of silver as enacted by the Coinage Act of 1792 which determined the dollar to be 371 4/16 grain pure or 416 grain standard silver, the currency most used in international transactions, it is the worlds primary reserve currency. Several countries use it as their currency, and in many others it is the de facto currency. Besides the United States, it is used as the sole currency in two British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean, the British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands. A few countries use the Federal Reserve Notes for paper money, while the country mints its own coins, or also accepts U. S. coins that can be used as payment in U. S. dollars. After Nixon shock of 1971, USD became fiat currency, Article I, Section 8 of the U. S. Constitution provides that the Congress has the power To coin money, laws implementing this power are currently codified at 31 U. S. C. Section 5112 prescribes the forms in which the United States dollars should be issued and these coins are both designated in Section 5112 as legal tender in payment of debts. The Sacagawea dollar is one example of the copper alloy dollar, the pure silver dollar is known as the American Silver Eagle. Section 5112 also provides for the minting and issuance of other coins and these other coins are more fully described in Coins of the United States dollar. The Constitution provides that a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and that provision of the Constitution is made specific by Section 331 of Title 31 of the United States Code. The sums of money reported in the Statements are currently being expressed in U. S. dollars, the U. S. dollar may therefore be described as the unit of account of the United States. The word dollar is one of the words in the first paragraph of Section 9 of Article I of the Constitution, there, dollars is a reference to the Spanish milled dollar, a coin that had a monetary value of 8 Spanish units of currency, or reales. In 1792 the U. S. Congress passed a Coinage Act, Section 20 of the act provided, That the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars, or units. And that all accounts in the offices and all proceedings in the courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation. In other words, this act designated the United States dollar as the unit of currency of the United States, unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U. S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the form is significantly more common

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Paramount Parks
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Paramount Parks was an operator of theme parks and attractions, which annually attracted about 13 million patrons. Viacom had assumed control of the company as part of its acquisition of Paramount Pictures in 1994, the company once owned and operated five theme parks in North America and managed Bonfante Gardens in Gilroy, California. From late 2001 until late 2004, Paramount Parks also managed Terra Mítica, the companys flagship park was Paramounts Kings Island. Paramount Communications, previously known as Gulf+Western, in turn had acquired the parks from Nelson Schwab, the parks were part of Viacoms Blockbuster Entertainment division until 2002 when they were moved back to Paramount Pictures. After another Viacom corporate shuffle in 2004 the parks became part of Viacom Recreation, in early 2006, as Viacom went through a corporate split, Paramount Parks was assigned to CBS Corporation. CBS Corporation, in order to toss overboard any unnecessary company assets, sought to sell the parks during the 2006 season, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. owners of more well known Cedar Point and Knotts Berry Farm theme parks approached the company in 2006. They officially purchased the parks and a 10-year license, stating that the parks could continue to use the Paramount prefix, however, in 2008, all references to Paramount were removed in the parks. In June 2007, it was revealed that a Paramount Park was to be developed and opened at the Dubailand complex in the United Arab Emirates, no clear developments have been made, and it is likely the project has been abandoned. In October 2011 plans for a new Paramount theme park to be developed in Alhama, the resort to be called Paramount Park is to be the second largest theme park in Europe after Disneyland, Paris. Projects to continue with the construction of the park have been cancelled, the Paramount Parks were built by Paramount, but rather were pre-existing and purchased as a whole, rebranded with the Paramount name. Effectively, it seemed Paramount was attempting to enter into the movie-based theme-park business popularized by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, in the 1970s and 1980s, Taft Broadcasting created a division called KECO Entertainment, which was formed in order to build theme parks nationwide. In 1972 and 1975, KECO built Kings Island and Kings Dominion respectively, in 1975, KECO led a forced purchase on the Carowinds Corporation, a bankrupt company, leaving them no choice but to sell Carowinds theme park in North & South Carolina. In 1981, KECO opened Canadas Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, in 1984 hotel company Marriott, owner of two parks named Great America, was looking to divest itself of its parks. One of the parks was located in the suburbs of San Francisco, the California park was purchased by KECO, while the Illinois Park became part of the Six Flags chain. In 1992, KECO Entertainment sold their six parks to Paramount Communications, subsequently, in 1993 the Paramounts prefix was added to the parks, save Canadas Wonderland which, to avoid the use of a double possessive noun, was simply Paramount Canadas Wonderland. In 2000, Paramount Parks purchased the majority of shares in Spanish theme park Terra Mitica, branding it Terra Mitica, in 2004, Paramount dropped its shares in the park, and the name was reverted without the Paramount suffix. Paramount Parks were one of the few remaining seasonal park operators to exclusively use themed layouts and its this aspect that likely helped the parks stand out against other regional competitors such as Cedar Fair, who ran lightly themed amusement parks exclusively. These two attractions, while costing only slightly less than Cedar Points additions, were indoor, highly themed, immersive rides with synchronized musical scores, like many amusement park operators, Paramount featured one flagship park

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Cedar Fair
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Cedar Fair, L. P. doing business as the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, is a publicly traded partnership headquartered at its Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. The company owns and operates eleven amusement parks, two water parks, one indoor water park, and five hotels. Cedar Fair also manages Gilroy Gardens under contract with the city of Gilroy, Cedar Point opened in 1870 as a recreational area. The park was developed over the years going through only a few managements, the park belonged to the Cedar Point Pleasure Company. In 1974, Cedar Point Pleasure Company proposed building an amusement park in Cambridge Township and those plans were abandoned in 1975. Three years later, Cedar Point acquired Valleyfair, the name Cedar Fair then was derived from the names of both parks, Cedar coming from Cedar Point and Fair coming from Valleyfair. Cedar Fair was founded in 1983 then went public on April 29,1987, the first acquisition of the new Cedar Fair company came in 1992 when Cedar Fair bought Dorney Park from Harris Weinstein. Cedar Fair also bought Worlds of Fun from Hunt-Midwest in 1995, one of the biggest acquisitions came in 1997 when Cedar Fair bought Knotts Berry Farm from the Knott family. This marked the first time Cedar Fair operated an amusement park. Michigans Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan and was purchased for $27.6 million in 2001, Cedar Fair opened their first indoor water park in November 2004, Castaway Bay. It replaced the former Radisson Hotel and is open year-round, the biggest acquisitions have come recently starting in 2004 with Six Flags World of Adventure. Cedar Fair bought the park for $145 million and reverted its name back to Geauga Lake, however, with it being so close to Cedar Point, the park started losing attendance and various rides, leading to rumors of the park closing. On September 21,2007, it was announced that Geauga Lake would close, most of the rides at Geauga Lake were sent to other Cedar Fair parks to operate. In 2011, the parks name was shortened to just Wildwater Kingdom. On June 30,2006, Cedar Fair announced that it had completed its acquisition of Paramount Parks from CBS Corporation in a transaction valued at $1.24 billion USD. With the purchase of the Paramount Parks, Cedar Fair changed its name to Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, the individual parks continued to operate under their Paramount names during the 2006 season, however Cedar Fair began removing the Paramount name and logo from the parks in January 2007. The names of the parks were changed back to their original pre-Paramount names with the Cedar Fair corporate logo added and they also changed Bonfante Gardens to Gilroy Gardens. Cedar Fair began removing references to Paramount Pictures since they did not have the licenses to use them, all these changes were made before the beginning of the 2007 season

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Le Vampire
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Le Vampire is an inverted roller coaster at La Ronde amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by the Swiss firm Bolliger & Mabillard. It is a image of Batman, The Ride, however since this is not a branded Six Flags park, Six Flags licensing agreement with Warner Bros. As a result, the coaster has no association to the Batman media franchise and was given an unrelated name. The track is 823 metres in length and reaches a height of nearly 32 metres, riders sit with their legs dangling such as on a ski chairlift and reach speeds of up to 80.5 km/hour and loop head-over-heels five times. The Vampire can carry up to 1,400 riders per hour and it was announced in January 2009 that Six Flags will be commencing the Warner Bros. and DC Comics license in La Ronde, however it is unknown if this will impact Le Vampire. The ride was closed due to an accident on July 6,2012 and it opened for the first time since the incident on August 13,2012. On September 3,2015, the announced that the ride would run backwards for a limited amount of time during the 2016 season. Le Vampire was constructed by Martin & Vleminckx, incidents at La Ronde Batman, The Ride Vampire at La Ronde website

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Goliath (La Ronde)
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Goliath is a steel coaster roller coaster at the La Ronde located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, it reaches a height of 174.8 feet, a speed of 68.4 miles per hour. Construction commenced in September 2005, and the coaster opened to the public on May 13,2006. Goliath was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada until it was surpassed by Behemoth, speculation that La Ronde would be building a new roller coaster began in the second half of 2004. Rumors that the coaster would be manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard emerged in September 2005. Construction for the coaster by Martin & Vleminckx began in September 2005 with land clearing. The $18.7 million Goliath was announced on October 26,2005, by mid-November, the storage bay was constructed with track pieces for the brake run and station being installed soon after. Construction on the hill continued throughout December and was topped off on December 21. The first drop was completed by mid-January 2006 followed by the first camelback hill which was completed by the end of February, after the second and third camelback hills were installed, the turnaround was completed in mid-March. The three camelback hills and banked turns leading back to the station were installed by the end of March marking the completion of installing track, the cars for the trains were also delivered in late March. After the cars were put on the track in April, testing began, once testing was complete, Goliath opened to the public on May 13,2006. When Goliath opened, it was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada, two years later, when Behemoth opened at Canadas Wonderland, Goliath lost both records. After being dispatched from the station, the train begins to climb the 174.8 feet lift hill. Once at the top, the train back down 170.6 feet at a 70-degree angle. The train then makes a right turn leading into the first of three consecutive camelback hills, each at a height of 121.4 feet,95.2 feet. Following the third hill, the train enters a 75.5 feet left hand turnaround that makes the face the opposite direction that it came. After dropping back down to the ground, the train goes over another three hills, each at a height of 68.9 feet,59.1 feet. Then, the train makes an upward 45.9 feet right banked turn, after another 42.7 feet left banked turn, the train rises back up and goes over a small bump before entering the final brake run

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Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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Are You Afraid of the Dark. is a Canadian horror fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was created by D. J, macHale and Ned Kandel, and was picked up by Nickelodeon in 1991. The series premiered with the episode The Tale of the Twisted Claw as a pilot on Halloween 1990 on the Canadian television network YTV, the show then premiered on Nickelodeons SNICK on August 15,1992 and aired until April 20,1996. The show was both a critical and commercial success, garnering numerous awards as the series progressed, a revival series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. Both series of Are You Afraid of the Dark, revolved around a group of teenagers who referred to themselves as The Midnight Society. Every week, at a location in the woods, one member would tell a scary story to the group. The actual story, rather than the telling, was displayed to the television viewer, the story was shown between the groups arrival at the site and their departure. Each storyteller would begin his story by saying Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, at which point he or she would toss a handful of midnight dust from a leather pouch into a campfire to heighten the flames and produce an eerie white smoke. The storyteller would continue by announcing its title, usually, the episodes were either filmed in the woods, in abandoned houses, or in public places like schools or libraries. Sources of these vary in different ways, many were adaptations of public domain fairy tales. For example, the episode The Tale of the Twisted Claw is an adaptation of W. W. Jacobs legendary short story The Monkeys Paw, sometimes, the stories were inspired by a certain event in the life of the storyteller. In the episode The Tale of the Crimson Clown, for instance, Tucker blackmailed his brother Gary with a poem he had found, Gary then told a story in which a naughty younger brother was punished cruelly for his evil deeds. At the end of the episode, Tucker gave the poem back to his brother, many of the horror stories on Are You Afraid of the Dark. Ended with an ending, for example, in the episode The Tale of the Lonely Ghost. Nearly every story focused on ending with a resolution and the main characters safe escape from whatever trouble had come upon them, however, the occasional episode would deviate from this formula, usually ending with the demise of the character. In one notable case, The Tale of the Dark Music, arguably the darkest example is found in The Tale of the Pinball Wizard, where the protagonist finds himself trapped in a giant, lethal pinball game, and believes he must complete the game to escape. He is nearly killed several times, and after he manages to win. Sometimes, the story would be related to an event and this would cause either Gary or Tucker to hurriedly dump the water on the fire, and the Midnight Society would run off to wherever they go after meetings, most likely back to their homes

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Nintendo
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is one of the worlds largest video game companies by market capitalization, founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small businesses, such as cab services. The word Nintendo can be translated from Japanese to English as leave luck to heaven. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseballs Seattle Mariners, as of 31 March 2014, Nintendo has cumulative sales of over 670.43 million hardware units and 4.23 billion software units. The company has created and released some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo was founded as a card company in late 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. Based in Kyoto, Japan, the produced and marketed a playing card game called Hanafuda. The handmade cards soon became popular, and Yamauchi hired assistants to mass-produce cards to satisfy demand, in 1949, the company adopted the name Nintendo Karuta Co. Ltd. doing business as The Nintendo Playing Card Co. outside Japan. Nintendo continues to manufacture playing cards in Japan and organizes its own contract bridge tournament called the Nintendo Cup. In 1956, Hiroshi Yamauchi, grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi, visited the U. S. to talk with the United States Playing Card Company and he found that the biggest playing card company in the world was using only a small office. Yamauchis realization that the card business had limited potential was a turning point. He then acquired the license to use Disney characters on playing cards to drive sales, in 1963, Yamauchi renamed Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd. to Nintendo Co. Ltd. The company then began to experiment in other areas of business using newly injected capital during the period of time between 1963 and 1968, Nintendo set up a taxi company called Daiya. However, Nintendo was forced to sell it because problems with the unions were making it too expensive to run the service. It also set up a hotel chain, a TV network. All of these ventures failed, and after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, playing card sales dropped. In 1966, Nintendo moved into the Japanese toy industry with the Ultra Hand, Yokoi was moved from maintenance to the new Nintendo Games department as a product developer. Nintendo continued to produce toys, including the Ultra Machine, Love Tester

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Nintendo DS
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The Nintendo DS or simply, DS, is a 32-bit dual-screen handheld game console developed and released by Nintendo. The device went on sale in North America on November 21,2004, both screens are encompassed within a clamshell design similar to the Game Boy Advance SP. The Nintendo DS also features the ability for multiple DS consoles to directly interact with each other over Wi-Fi within a short range without the need to connect to a wireless network. Alternatively, they could interact online using the now-closed Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service and its main competitor was Sonys PlayStation Portable as part of the seventh generation era. Prior to its release, the Nintendo DS was marketed as an experimental, third pillar in Nintendos console lineup, meant to complement the Game Boy Advance and GameCube. However, backward compatibility with Game Boy Advance titles and strong sales ultimately established it as the successor to the Game Boy series, on March 2,2006, Nintendo launched the Nintendo DS Lite, a slimmer and lighter redesign of the original Nintendo DS with brighter screens. On November 1,2008, Nintendo released the Nintendo DSi, another redesign with several hardware improvements and new features. All Nintendo DS models combined have sold 154.02 million units, making it the best selling game console to date. The Nintendo DS line was succeeded by the Nintendo 3DS line in 2011, on November 13,2003, Nintendo announced that it would be releasing a new game product in 2004. The company did not provide details, but stated it would not succeed the Game Boy Advance or GameCube. On January 20,2004, the console was announced under the codename Nintendo DS. Nintendo released only a few details at that time, saying that the console would have two separate, 3-inch TFT LCD display panels, separate processors, and up to 1 gigabit of semiconductor memory. He also expressed optimism that the DS would help put Nintendo back at the forefront of innovation, in March 2004, a document containing most of the consoles technical specifications was leaked, also revealing its internal development name, Nitro. In May 2004, the console was shown in prototype form at E32004, on July 28,2004, Nintendo revealed a new design that was described as sleeker and more elegant than the one shown at E3 and announced Nintendo DS as the devices official name. On September 20,2004, Nintendo announced that the Nintendo DS would be released in North America on November 21,2004 for US$149.99. It was set to release on December 2,2004 in Japan, on February 24,2005 in Australia, the console was released in North America with a midnight launch event at Universal CityWalk EB Games in Los Angeles, California. The console was launched quietly in Japan compared to the North America launch, the Nintendo DS was seen by many analysts to be in the same market as Sonys PlayStation Portable, although representatives from both companies have said that each system targets a different audience. At one point, Time magazine awarded the DS a Gadget of the Week award, at the time of its release in the United States, the Nintendo DS retailed for US $149.99

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Wii
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The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19,2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii competed with Microsofts Xbox 360, Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others. The Wii introduced the Wii Remote controller, which can be used as a pointing device. Another notable feature of the console is the now defunct WiiConnect24, like other seventh-generation consoles, it features a game download service, called Virtual Console, which features emulated games from past systems. It succeeded the GameCube, and early models are fully backward-compatible with all GameCube games, Nintendo first spoke of the console at the E32004 press conference and later unveiled it at E32005. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata revealed a prototype of the controller at the September 2005 Tokyo Game Show, at E32006, the console won the first of several awards. By December 8,2006, it had completed its launch in the four key markets, in late 2011, Nintendo released a reconfigured model, the Wii Family Edition, which lacks Nintendo GameCube compatibility, this model was not released in Japan. The Wii Mini, Nintendos first major redesign since the compact SNES. The Wii Mini can only play Wii optical discs, as it omits GameCube compatibility and all networking capabilities, the Wiis successor, the Wii U, was released on November 18,2012. On October 20,2013, Nintendo confirmed it had discontinued production of the Wii in Japan and Europe, although the Wii Mini is still in production, the console was conceived in 2001, as the Nintendo GameCube was first released. According to an interview with Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, the concept involved focusing on a new form of player interaction, the consensus was that power isnt everything for a console. Too many powerful consoles cant coexist and its like having only ferocious dinosaurs. They might fight and hasten their own extinction, in 2003, game engineers and designers were brought together to develop the concept further. By 2005 the controller interface had taken form, but a showing at that years Electronic Entertainment Expo was canceled. Miyamoto stated that the company had some troubleshooting to do, so we decided not to reveal the controller and instead we displayed just the console. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata later unveiled and demonstrated the Wii Remote at the September Tokyo Game Show, the Nintendo DS is said to have influenced the Wiis design. Designer Kenichiro Ashida noted, We had the DS on our minds as we worked on the Wii and we thought about copying the DSs touch-panel interface and even came up with a prototype. The idea was rejected because of the notion that the two gaming systems would be identical

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Bolliger & Mabillard
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Bolliger & Mabillard, abbreviated B&M and formally known as Bolliger & Mabillard Consulting Engineers Inc. is a roller coaster design consultancy based in Monthey, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1988 by Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard, with Bolliger as president, since 1988, B&M has built 100 roller coasters around the world and have pioneered several new ride technologies, most notably the inverted roller coaster. Since 1990, all designed by B&M that have been built within North America have been manufactured by Clermont Steel Fabricators which is located in Batavia, Ohio. B&M started with four employees and has grown, as of 2012 it employs 37 people, mostly engineers. In 2016 the company completed its 100th coaster, Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard starting working for Giovanola, a manufacturing company who supplied rides to Intamin, in the 1970s. During their time at Giovanola, they helped design the companys first stand-up roller coaster and they also worked on other projects, such as Z-Force at Six Flags Great America. In 1987, Giovanola underwent a change of management, Bolliger & Mabillard decided to leave, at the time, B&M employed four people, two draftsmen, Bolliger, and Mabillard. When B&M was created, the pair had agreed not to any more amusement attractions. However, Six Flags contacted the new company and asked it to build a roller coaster, B&M accepted the offer and hired two more draftsmen. But B&M had a problem regarding how and where to manufacture the track pieces for the roller coaster, Clermont Steel Fabricators accepted and currently manufactures all Bolliger and Mabillard roller coaster track pieces for all of North America. Now with a company to manufacture the track, B&M built its first roller coaster, a roller coaster, Iron Wolf. Two years later, Bolliger & Mabillard built another project for Six Flags Great America, Batman, The Ride, the worlds first Inverted Coaster, Bolliger & Mabillard also invented the Floorless Coaster, and the Dive Coaster. The company also built its first launched coaster, the The Incredible Hulk. Although The Incredible Hulk uses a system, B&M classifies it as a Sitting Coaster. In 2010, B&M unveiled its new Wing Coaster and premiered the prototype model, named Raptor and it has two seats on each side on the car that hang riders over the sides of the track. There are currently only five in operation, in 2015, B&M constructed Thunderbird at Holiday World & Splashin Safari, its first in-house launched coaster. By 2010, B&M employed twelve engineers, twelve draftsman, the company has made other contributions to the roller coaster industry. The company built the trains for the Psyclone, a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain

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Inverted roller coaster
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An inverted roller coaster is a roller coaster in which the train runs under the track with the seats directly attached to the wheel carriage. This latter attribute is what sets it apart from the suspended coaster, which runs under the track. The coaster types inverted orientation distinguishes it from a roller coaster. The inverted coaster was pioneered by the Swiss roller coaster designers Bolliger & Mabillard in the early 1990s, the first installation came at Six Flags Great America in 1992. Batman, The Ride opened to much fanfare and was cloned many times at other parks, the inverted coaster quickly became an industry favorite with custom designs installed nearly every year. The tallest and fastest inverted coaster is Wicked Twister at Cedar Point towering 215 feet, the longest inverted coaster is Banshee at Kings Island which travels along 4,124 feet of track. Other roller coaster manufacturers followed in the footsteps of Bolliger & Mabillard and began working on their own inverted coaster designs, including Vekoma, Intamin, Intamin has few designs classified as inverted coasters, although they do install inverted coaster trains on some of their launched designs. Vekoma, on the hand, usually mass-produces the same design with 41 identical coasters –. Also, in recent years, Vekoma has become the first manufacturer to install a family-friendly inverted roller coaster, giovanola also has a single inverted coaster operating. The inversions usually include vertical loops, zero gravity rolls, Immelmann loops, cobra rolls,189 inverted roller coasters have been installed at various theme parks, some of which have been relocated. The following list is not exhaustive and only shows the most notable installations, wing Coaster Suspended roller coaster Pipeline roller coaster Bolliger & Mabillard official site Intamin official site Vekoma official site

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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan

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DC Comics
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DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. a division of Time Warner, the company has also published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and many titles under their alternative imprint Vertigo. The initials DC came from the popular series Detective Comics. Random House distributes DC Comics books to the market, while Diamond Comic Distributors supplies the comics shop specialty market. DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics together shared 70% of the American comic book market in 2016, entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications in autumn 1934. The company debuted with the tabloid-sized New Fun, The Big Comic Magazine #1 with a date of February 1935. That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue #503 in 1983, in 2009 DC revived Adventure Comics with its original numbering. In 1935, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, created Doctor Occult. Wheeler-Nicholsons third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, the themed anthology series would become a sensation with the introduction of Batman in issue #27. By then, however, Wheeler-Nicholson had gone, Detective Comics, Inc. was formed, with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz, Donenfelds accountant, listed as owners. Major Wheeler-Nicholson remained for a year, but cash-flow problems continued, shortly afterward, Detective Comics, Inc. purchased the remains of National Allied, also known as Nicholson Publishing, at a bankruptcy auction. Detective Comics, Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, Action Comics #1, the first comic book to feature the new character archetype—soon known as superheroes—proved a sales hit. The company quickly introduced such popular characters as the Sandman and Batman. That year, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, at that point, Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics. Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, Independent News, National Periodical Publications became publicly traded on the stock market in 1961. The company began to move aggressively against what it saw as copyright-violating imitations from other companies, such as Fox Comics Wonder Man and this extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics top-selling character. Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous, the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred, faced with declining sales and the prospect of bankruptcy if it lost, Fawcett capitulated in 1955 and ceased comics publication

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Batman: The Ride
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Batman, The Ride is a steel inverted roller coaster based thematically off of the 1989 film Batman and found at seven Six Flags theme parks in the United States. Built by consulting engineers Bolliger & Mabillard, it rises to a height of between 100 and 105 feet and reaches top speeds of 50 miles per hour, the original roller coaster at Six Flags Great America was partially devised by the parks general manager Jim Wintrode. Batman, The Ride was the worlds first inverted roller coaster when it opened in 1992, clones of the ride exist at amusement parks around the world. The concept of a roller coaster with inversions was developed by Jim Wintrode. To develop the idea, Wintrode worked with Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard – from Swiss roller coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard –, the ride soft opened to the public on May 2,1992, with an official opening one week later. Although the full cost of the ride was never disclosed, it was the single biggest investment made by Six Flags Great America on one attraction, installation of the ride followed at Six Flags Over Georgia, and Six Flags Over Texas. In 2002 La Ronde amusement park, Montreal, opened a clone of the ride under the name Le Vampire, movie World Madrid, under the name Batman, La Fuga. As La Ronde is not a branded Six Flags park, the agreement with Warner Bros. and DC Comics for the name Batman. The La Ronde ride was expected to become Batman, The Ride when the park was scheduled to be converted to a Six Flags-branded park in the mid-2000s, however, these changes were never initiated. One of the last installations of the ride was at Six Flags New Orleans in 2003, the ride reopened as Goliath on April 18,2008. On February 21,2013, Six Flags Great America announced that their Batman, Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags Over Texas did the same during the 2014 season. Six Flags Over Georgia and Six Flags Great Adventure followed suit running theirs backwards for a time in 2015. Six Flags Great America with Batman Returns Six Flags St, each installation of Batman, The Ride has a track length of approximately 2,700 feet. The rides reach a top speed of 50 miles per hour, Batman, The Ride clones operate with two steel and fiberglass trains, each containing eight cars. Each car seats four riders in a row for a total of 32 riders per train. Batman, The Ride begins with the track floor descending, the train moves out of the station and up a chain lift hill. At the top of the hill the train dips down through a Bolliger & Mabillard pre-drop, coasts down a 190-degree swoop to the left and it then flips through a zero-G roll, followed by another vertical loop. The train then travels upward around a spiral to the left, then through a wider turn to the right, drops slightly

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Batman franchise media
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Since his first appearance in 1939, Batman has been adapted into such media as film, radio, television, and video games, as well as numerous merchandising items. A number of Batman theatrical films have been made, there have also been several attempted projects during the hiatus between Batman & Robin and Batman Begins. Affleck reprised the role in Suicide Squad as a means to the Squads background stories, affleck will reprise the role in the upcoming film Justice League, and is signed on to star in, produce, and co-write a Batman film set within the DC Extended Universe. One of the characters is actually Bruce Waynes cousin, Van Wayne. In 1999, Tim McCanlies wrote a script and series bible for a planned series called Bruce Wayne to be produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions. Taking place in his years, the series would cover his passage into young adulthood, training. Other characters would include Alfred, Sergeant Jim Gordon, law school student Harvey Dent, planned to run for five to six seasons, it would show how he acquired his martial arts skills, his equipment, and detective abilities he would use in his war on crime. It would also focus on such as corruption within the board of Wayne Enterprises. Bruce Wayne was nearing pre-production when Warner Bros. movie division felt it would conflict with the planned Year One movie, the result was Batman Begins and Tollin/Robbins Productions later went to create Smallville, a series about a teenage Clark Kent. Television and Fox Network premiered the series Gotham with show creator Bruno Heller, which focuses on James Gordon, the pilot began filming in March 2014 and features Bruce Wayne at 12 years old. Fox Chairman Kevin Reilly revealed that the series has a story of Wayne becoming Batman in the final episode. The series has a tone to the Christopher Nolan Batman films. Danny Cannon directed the pilot and executive produces the series, 1973–86, Various Super Friends series produced by Hanna-Barbera, Olan Soule again reprises his role as Batman in all but the last two Super Friends series, where he is replaced by Adam West. Efforts were made to launch a Batman radio series in 1943 and again in 1950, in 1989, an original radio drama, Batman, The Lazarus Syndrome, was produced by Dirk Maggs for BBC Radio 4. A second Maggs production aired on BBC Radio 1 in 1994 and it was adapted, produced and directed by Maggs—with music composed by Mark Russell—who had also made Superman, Doomsday & Beyond on BBC Radio 5. This show, however was not commissioned of its own, and this meant it was written with a sense of immediacy, having to make an instant effect and each three-minute segment contains a major plot development or sound effect stunt and ends on a cliffhanger. DC acknowledged the effort in an issue Shadow of The Bat by having villains jump past a sign reading Dirk Maggs Radio, michael Gough reprised the role of Alfred Pennyworth from the Burton/Schumacher film series. From 1943 to 1946, Batman and Robin appeared in a daily newspaper comic strip produced by the McClure Syndicate

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Vekoma
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Vekoma Rides Manufacturing is a Dutch amusement ride manufacturer. In 2008, Vekoma Rides Manufacturing acquired the Wheels of Excellence range of Ferris wheels from Ronald Bussink, to be handled by a new Vekoma division, the Dutch Wheels product range includes the R40, R50, and R60 models, each available in three different types. Other Vekoma coaster models include Swinging Turns, Enigma, Hurricane, Illusion, Family Boomerang, Tilt Coaster, there are also many different custom models. In 2013, Vekoma signed a deal with Idaho-based Rocky Mountain Construction, the agreement allows Vekoma to sell Rocky Mountain Constructions roller coasters outside the North American market. As of 2012, Vekoma has built over 270 roller coasters around the world, official website Vekoma at the Roller Coaster DataBase

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Suspended Looping Coaster
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The Suspended Looping Coaster is a model of steel inverted roller coaster built by Vekoma. There are at least 39 different installations across the world, the minimum rider height requirement is 130 centimetres. The first Suspended Looping Coaster installation was El Condor at Walibi Holland in the Netherlands and it was initially designed to run with ten cars in each train. Trouble with this lead to the trains being shortened to eight cars to a train. T3 at Kentucky Kingdom was the prototype model Suspended Looping Coaster. Like El Condor, it was designed to run with ten cars in a train, the ride starts by taking riders up a 33. 3-metre chain hill. Once at the top, the train goes down a steep, a roll over first features a Sidewinder quickly followed by a reverse sidewinder. Upon exit from this element, the train goes up a hill which features some banking at the top before descending and approaching the rides next inversion - a sidewinder, a sidewinder is similar to an Immelmann loop however it features a half loop followed by a half corkscrew. From the exit of this sidewinder, the train goes into a helix before entering the rides final two inversions - inline twists. These two twists are followed one after the other, a banked curve to the right turns the train back around to face towards the station. At this point some models feature an additional helix to the left while others simply continue straight into the brake run, the standard model also has a relatively compact layout, providing for footchoppers. Vekoma have also manufactured two custom Suspended Looping Coasters, Fly - The Great Noreaster at Moreys Piers and Jubilee Odyssey at Fantasy Island, many Suspended Looping Coasters operate with two trains consisting of ten cars, though some operate with as few as seven cars. Poorly maintained, poor track layout or most likely non-exact track manufacturing can cause SLCs riders to experience painful head banging and they also use very small plastic seats with little or no room for a person to move. Contrary to popular belief, the spacing on the trains adds little to the roughness of these rides. Vekoma is currently manufacturing new trains with convenient hip harnesses, unlike the first generation of trains, this modification will make the overall ride experience more comfortable. Vekoma also make vest-like harnesses that allow to rider to sit more comfortable riding. The only two places to have these trains is at Moreys Piers, and at Isla Magica in Spain. In 2012, Lethal Weapon - The Ride at Warner Bros, movie World reopened as Arkham Asylum - Shock Therapy. There are at least 41 different installations across the world which have been located at 47 different theme parks, yet-to-be-named 689m Standards are set to open in Al Zawraa Dream Park in Iraq and Energylandia in Poland in 2015

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Six Flags AstroWorld
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Six Flags AstroWorld was a seasonally operated theme park located on approximately 57 acres of land between Kirby Drive and Fannin Avenue, directly south of Loop 610 in Houston, Texas. AstroWorld was sold to the Six Flags Corporation by the Hofheinz family in 1975, although the fourth park to be included in the Six Flags family of theme parks, it was the first park to be purchased by that company instead of being built. It was marketed as AstroWorld, A Member of the Six Flags Family so as to not confuse patrons with Six Flags Over Texas located in Arlington, many variations of this naming scheme emerged from the Six Flags marketing department over the years. Despite these attempts at branding the park, most people continued to call it AstroWorld, similarly, Fiesta Texas in San Antonio has been marketed as Fiesta Texas, A Six Flags Theme Park. AstroWorld was permanently closed by the Six Flags Corporation after its final day of operations on October 30,2005 and it was demolished between October 30,2005 and the first half of 2006. The bridge crossing Loop 610 from the park to the parking lot continues to stand and is the last remaining structure from AstroWorld, the area where AstroWorld once stood is still grassland and is used for overflow parking during the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. AstroWorld was the home of many unique attractions, the Alpine Sleigh Ride was a dark ride attraction which opened during the parks first season. It had a control system and vehicles designed by Arrow Development. Riders passed through an alpine forest before reaching the building which was designed to resemble a large mountain capped with snow. A waterfall cascaded from atop the mountain and down into a pond near the mountains base. Once past the waterfall, riders would journey through many chambers within the mountain and these included an echo tunnel and an avalanche room with simulated snow. At several points throughout the ride, the vehicles would exit, the sleigh-themed vehicles were powered by an electrical bus bar where portions of the track ascended, and they were gravity powered during the descents which featured several surprise dips. Part of the building was shared with the adjacent gas powered car ride which passed through a tunnel in the side of the mountain. The ride included an appearance by the Abominable Snowman, Alpine Sleigh Ride was retired after the 1983 operating season. Greezed Lightnin, a shuttle roller coaster designed by Anton Schwarzkopf which accelerated riders from 0 -60 mph in roughly 4 seconds was installed in 1978. Riders traveled both forwards and backwards during the course of the ride over a track with one loop. Greezed Lightnins 1 millionth ride occurred on October 15,2005, the Ultra Twister, a TOGO pipeline shuttle coaster featuring three heartline twists, opened in 1990 and was the only ride of its kind operating in the United States. Originally featuring a 90-degree vertical lift, a new 45-degree lift hill was constructed for the ride when it was moved here from Six Flags Great Adventure, exterior sections of the Alpine Sleigh Ride were demolished to make room for the Ultra Twister and its queue house

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Terminator X: A Laser Battle for Salvation
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Terminator X, A Laser Battle for Salvation is a themed indoor laser skirmish attraction created by Lynton V. Harris of Sudden Impact Entertainment. The attraction is located at Sunway Lagoon in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The first Terminator X attraction debuted at the Royal Adelaide Show in Australia in 2009 and it was then moved to Adventure World in Perth, Western Australia later that year for the summer season. In early 2010, that particular installation was shipped to the United States, by May 2010, the attraction had opened at both La Ronde in Montreal, Canada, and at Sunway Lagoon in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. In November 2010, Six Flags announced that they would open the attraction at Six Flags México in 2011, groups of 30 guests enter a briefing room. Each player is given instructions and battle gear in this room and they are then ushered into the themed arena where the combat takes place. For approximately five minutes two teams of 15 not only battle against each other but also against the intelligent arena and against 12 characters from the Terminator series

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Terminator (franchise)
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The Terminator series is a science-fiction franchise created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. As of February 2010, the franchise has generated $3 billion in revenue, the central theme of the franchise is the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence that is Skynet. Skynet is positioned in the first film as a U. S. strategic Global Digital Defense Network computer system by Cyberdyne Systems which becomes self-aware, upon activation, it immediately perceives all humans as a security threat, and formulates a plan to systematically wipe out humanity itself. Due to time travel and consequent ability to change the future, in Terminator 2, Judgment Day, Sarah states that Judgment Day will occur on August 29,1997. However, Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines shows that the Judgment Day holocaust has been postponed to July 24,2003. In Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Judgment Day was delayed further to April 21,2011, in Genisys, however, that Terminator unit is destroyed and subsequently dissolved in acid by the Guardian, thus preventing Cyberdyne from reverse engineering it. This serves to postpone Judgment Day even further and this concept of never being able to fully prevent Judgement Day but only being able to delay its arrival is at the heart of the Terminator films both technically and artistically. only postponed. This in-universe explanation provides an explanation for more Terminator movies to be made, therefore. This television news spot attempted to compare and contrast how far present day technology, the Terminator is a 1984 science fiction film released by Orion Pictures, co-written and directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. It is the first work in the Terminator franchise, in the film, machines take over the world in the near future, directed by the artificial intelligence Skynet. With its sole mission to completely annihilate humanity, it develops android assassins called Terminators that outwardly appear human, a man named John Connor starts the Tech-Com resistance to fight the machines, defeat Skynet and free humanity. With the fate of humanity at stake, John sends soldier Kyle Reese back to protect his mother, also starring Emmy winner Paul Winfield. It is co-written, directed, and produced by James Cameron and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick. After machines fail to prevent John Connor from being born, they try again in 1995, this time attempting to terminate him as a child by using a more advanced Terminator, the T-1000. As before, John sends back a protector for his younger self, also starring Emmy winner Joe Morton. It was released on July 3,1991 to critical acclaim and grossed $519.8 million worldwide Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, as a result of the destruction of Cyberdyne at the end of T2, the Skynet takeover has been postponed, not averted. After Connors future self is terminated by a doppelgänger of his previous protector, Kate reprograms it and it was released on July 2,2003 to mixed reviews and grossed $433.4 million worldwide.4 million. It was written by John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris, Paul Haggis, Shawn Ryan, Jonathan Nolan, and Anthony E. Zuiker, directed by McG, and stars Christian Bale as John Connor

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SkyScreamer
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SkyScreamer is an amusement ride located at several Six Flags theme parks in North America. Designed by Funtime, an Australian ride manufacturer, the attraction is one of their Star Flyer models, since 2011, Six Flags has installed SkyScreamers in nine of their parks. Riders aboard SkyScreamer are carried aloft in two-person swing-like chairs attached to a gondola mounted on a central tower. When the gondola reaches the top of the tower, riders are swung in a circle at speeds approaching 43 miles per hour. The ride is marketed to both thrill-ride enthusiasts and patrons seeking a more family-friendly experience, the first two SkyScreamers were announced in late 2010 for Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and Six Flags St. Louis for the 2011 season. On May 14,2011, SkyScreamer officially opened at Six Flags St. Louis, on May 27,2011, SkyScreamer made its debut at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, adjacent to the Medusa roller coaster. In September 2011, Six Flags announced the addition of SkyScreamer to two parks, Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Six Flags Great Adventure. On January 19,2012, Six Flags announced that La Ronde would also receive a Star Flyer tower, on May 19,2012, La Ronde opened their attraction, using the name Vol Ultime instead of SkyScreamer. On May 23,2012, Six Flags Great Adventure opened SkyScreamer as part of their new Adventure Alley section, which was based around the idea of retro-style amusement rides. On May 27,2012, Six Flags Fiesta Texas opened their SkyScreamer in the Spassburg section of the park, season passholders were allowed to experience the ride one day earlier. The approval was granted a week later, with a conditional approval to build as tall as 410 feet. The planning documents revealed that the ride would replace the parks Skycoaster, however, when Six Flags announced its 2013 capital investments in August 2012, the Six Flags New England Star Flyer was not included. Instead, two parks, Six Flags Over Texas and Six Flags Over Georgia, were set to receive SkyScreamer attractions. Six Flags Over Georgias 242-foot version replaced the Wheelie and officially debuted on May 24,2013, Six Flags Over Texas model, dubbed the Texas SkyScreamer, reached 400 feet in height and opened on May 25,2013. It replaced the Texas Chute Out and Flashback, Texas SkyScreamer was awarded the title of the worlds tallest swing carousel ride by Guinness World Records. On August 29,2013, Six Flags announced that they would be adding the New England SkyScreamer to Six Flags New England in 2014, the over 400-foot-tall ride debuted officially on May 23,2014 in the parks North End section. New England SkyScreamer currently hold the title for the tallest swing ride, Six Flags America announced on September 1,2016 that for the following season they will be constructing Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth a 242-foot SkyScreamer. The ride would become one of the first SkyScreamers to be themed to a DC Comics character, Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth will become the tallest ride in the park

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Six Flags St. Louis
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Six Flags St. Louis, originally known as Six Flags Over Mid-America, is a theme park located in Eureka, Missouri, a suburb within southwestern Greater St. Louis. The park is located within the far northeastern portion of the Ozark Plateau,34 miles southwest of downtown St. Louis, the park opened on June 5,1971. It was the third of three company start-up parks created by the Six Flags chain. The other two parks built from the ground up were Six Flags over Texas and Six Flags over Georgia. Unlike the other two parks, which are currently managed but are no longer owned by Six Flags, Six Flags St. Louis is still owned and operated by the Six Flags corporation. The park branded itself as The Coaster Capital of Missouri in 2013, admission to Six Flags St. Louis also includes free admission to Hurricane Harbor. The park opened in 1971 as the theme park of the Six Flags chain and is the only one of the three remaining parks completely built, owned and operated by Six Flags. The park opened with six themed sections—Spain, France, England, the United States, Illinois, Six Flags St. Louis was located on 503 acres of land according to the Six Flags 2014 Annual Report. Six Flags sold 180 acres of undeveloped land east of the park to home developer McBride & Sons, according to the Six Flags 2015 Annual Report, the park now owns 323 acres of land. On February 19,2016, Holiday in the Park was announced to debut at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri and Six Flags America in Baltimore, Maryland for the 2016 Season. The Christmas festival will feature over one-million dazzling lights, with multiple themed areas throughout the park and holiday entertainment, Holiday in the Park begins on November 25,2016 and runs select days until January 1,2017. Six Flags St. Louis has announced its lineup of Mazes, Scare Zones, everything from Fright Fest 2015 will be returning with the exception of Insanity Alley, which will be replaced with Night Terrors, the all-new haunted attraction for 2016. Fright Fest 2016 begins September 30th,2016 and runs every Friday, Saturday, on September 1st,2016, Six Flags announced Spinsanity, a Zamperla Mega Disko, would be the parks new addition for 2017. The ride is scheduled to open in the spring of 2017 and it will be located across from Tsunami Soaker and next to Sound Stage in the Chouteaus Market area of the park. Hurricane Harbor is a park that is located within Six Flags St. Louis. There is an entrance right through the front gates on the right that takes park guests down a path directly to the park itself. Included with park admission, or with a Season Pass Six Flags St. Louis Six Flags St. Louis at the Roller Coaster DataBase Six Flags St. Louis Photo Gallery

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Zamperla
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Antonio Zamperla S. p. A. is an Italian design and manufacturing company founded in 1966. It is best known for creating family rides, thrill rides, the company also makes smaller coin-operated rides commonly found inside shopping malls. Zamperla builds roller coasters, like the powered Dragon Coaster, Mini Mouse, Zig Zag, in 2006, Zamperla announced Motocoaster, a motorcycle-themed roller coaster. Rights to some of S. D. C. s rides were handed to Zamperla after the company went bankrupt in 1993, in 2005 the founder of the company, Mr. Another famous Zamperla project is Kernwasser, north of Düsseldorf, an ex nuclear power station turned into an amusement park

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Pendulum ride
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Pendulum rides are amusement rides based on the motion of a fixed pendulum. The configuration of the consists of a gondola, arm. One end of the arm is fitted with a passenger-carrying gondola, on some models, the arm extends beyond the axle and is fitted with a heavy counterweight. The counterweight is often used when the gondola swings through an inversion, in addition to swinging back and forth, some designs incorporate rotating gondolas and may send riders through a complete inversion. Pendulum rides are propelled by one of two methods, a series of DC motors driving the axle, or wheels at the base of the pushing the gondola as it swings by. Rides that can be considered pendulum rides include, Ali Baba Booster Frisbee Kamikaze Looping Starship Pirate Ship Ranger Screamin Swing Speed Swing boat Topple Tower

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HUSS Park Attractions
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HUSS Park Attractions is a company that specializes in developing and manufacturing amusement rides at a factory in Budapest, Hungary. HUSS Maschinenfabrik was a German company founded in 1919 in Bremen and originally made new, the company began to create amusement rides in 1969 and continued until 2005. In 1981 Huss Maschinenfabrik purchased Arrow Development from the Rio Grande Railroad, the company got into financial trouble partially due to heavily investing in Darien Lake theme park in New York and the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans. Arrow Huss filed for protection in 1985, and 13 of the companys American officers negotiated a buyout. In 1986 the takeover was approved by the courts and the American company re-emerged as Arrow Dynamics, the German company reorganized as Huss Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. On August 1,2006, the Bremen district court declared provisional insolvency, following this, a new company was created, Huss Park Attractions. The new company was created by a group of investors who used the Huss name, created a similar to the original used by HUSS. HUSS Maschinenfabrik was the responsible for these rides. The companies of today are not the successors of the original HUSS MASCHINENFABRIK company nor the builders of the original HUSS rides. A few of HUSS rides include the Breakdance, Top Spin, Shotn Drop, Breakdance was developed and built in 1985 by HUSS Rides and there are now four variants, of which over 100 have been installed worldwide—46 of them in Germany. HUSS also offers a range of Giant Rides which are aimed to fill the gap between thrill rides and roller coasters, from 1981 to 1985, during its merger with Arrow, Arrow Huss built roller coasters. Darien Lakes Viper, MarineLands Dragon Mountain and Busch Gardens Williamsburgs Big Bad Wolf are a few examples, several companies using the HUSS name have produced and distributed over 30 unique ride designs. These rides are in all over the world, and some have been in operation for 35+ years

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S&S - Sansei Technologies
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S&S - Sansei Technologies, formerly S&S Worldwide, is an American company known for its pneumatically powered amusement rides and roller coaster designing. S&S - Sansei Technologies was founded by Stan Checketts as S&S Sports, S&S Sports manufactured bungee jumping and trampoline equipment. S&S Sports was sold in 1996, in 1994, S&S began manufacturing air-powered amusement rides which is now the main stay of the company. S&S - Sansei Technologies is based in Logan, Utah, in 2002, S&S began looking for opportunities to expand their business, citing acquisitions as the best method to do so. In October 2002, S&S founded S&S Arrow, a liability company which purchased the assets of the bankrupt Arrow Dynamics. However, the only Arrow Dynamics coaster design S&S continues to offer is the 4th dimension coaster, in 2004, after four wooden roller coasters were built, S&S closed that division of the company. In 2006, S&S Power opened Celebration Centre, a Family Entertainment Center featuring a number of S&S rides and prototypes, the facility was later sold and is currently no longer operating. On August 25,2006 S&S Power, Inc. announced that Stan Checketts and Gene Mulvihill, CEO Checketts was to direct the company based on the same principles upon which it was founded. to provide the amusement industry with thrilling, high-quality rides the entire family can enjoy. Checketts also announced that the operations of S&S would remain under the direction of Rich Allen. In February 2009, Larsen MacColl Partners acquired a significant equity interest in S&S, the Koffman family and affiliated shareholders were to maintain their ownership interest. Checketts ended his relationship with the company in order to pursue other business interests. As of December 2013, those interests included Soaring Eagle Zipline Inc. of Logan Utah

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Funtime (manufacturer)
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Funtime is an amusement ride manufacturer based in Bundall, Australia. The company manufactures such as the Sling Shot, Star Flyer. In 1998, Funtime was established in the suburb of Bundall on the Gold Coast, shortly after, the company opened a small amusement park in Surfers Paradise, a nearby Gold Coast suburb. At the time, the amusement park was known as Adrenalin Park and featured the companys Sling Shot, in 2010, Funtime threatened legal action against Dutch amusement ride manufacturer, Mondial, after that company unveiled the WindSeeker which bears similarities to Funtimes patented Star Flyer ride. Mondial responded to the threat by stating there is no merit to Funtimes claim. The park features installations of their Sling Shot and Vomatron rides, the park was previously known as Adrenalin Park and featured several other rides and attractions including an Intamin Parachute Drop tower, a mini golf course and a bungy tower. Booster, an amusement ride similar to the Vomatron Speed, another amusement ride similar to the Vomatron Official website US7666103 Amusement ride

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Chance Rides
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Chance Rides Manufacturing is a roller coaster and amusement ride manufacturer. The company was formed on May 16,2002, when the former Chance Industries Inc. emerged from bankruptcy, the main office and manufacturing facility are located in Wichita, Kansas. Chance Manufacturing was incorporated in 1961 by Richard H. Chance, harold Chance had been involved in the amusement business since 1946 building small trains for the Ottaway Amusement Company. He designed a 24-inch gauge replica of the C. P. Huntington, titled by the same name, Chances C. P. Huntington is the companys most successful product line. In 1967, Chance began producing Starliner Trams under the subsidiary Chance Coach, in 1970, Chance acquired the assets of the Allan Herschell Company. Richard G. Chance assumed control of the company and formed Chance Industries, Inc. in 1985 to oversee the various divisions – Chance Rides, Chance Coach, in December 1986, Chance then acquired Bradley & Kaye, a ride manufacturer specialized in childrens rides and carousel figures. For several years, Chance Rides Manufacturing products were sold under the brand Chance Morgan, in 2011, the company reintroduced the Chance Rides brand which encompasses Chance Morgan Coasters, Inc. and Chance Rides Manufacturing. On September 17,2011, trade publication Amusement Today presented Chance Rides with the Golden Ticket Award for Supplier of the Year, Chance began selling carrousels in 1971 following the acquisition of the Allan Herschell Company the previous year. Chance modified the Herschell design giving it a more ornate style, after Chance purchased Bradley & Kaye in December 1986, Chance was able to use the molds and manufacturing rights to 62 carousel figures produced by Bradley & Kaye owner, David Bradley. He had carefully reproduced prized carousel animals from famous carvers over the previous 20 years and new molds were cast at the Chance facility under his direction and these famous reproductions with spectacular detail have been included on Chance carrousels since the late 1980s. With the merger of the D. H. Morgan line of carousels, although fiberglass, the magnificent detail and menagerie of different styles of horses and other figures have become a trademark of Chance Rides carrousels. The first Ferris wheel from Chance, the Astro Wheel, was sold to showman Don Franklin and it featured 16 cars with two passengers per car. The first park model, an 80-foot Giant Wheel, was built in 1975 at Valleyfair amusement park in Minnesota and it features 18 cars holding four passengers per car and is still in operation. The Giant Wheel/Century Wheel was introduced in various sizes in both park and portable models in 1988 and it features 42 air-conditioned cars seating eight passengers per car. According to Chance Rides director Angus Jenkins, the wheels are known as observation wheels as opposed to Ferris wheels. On October 19,2012, Chance Rides announced a long term agreement with Bussink Design GmbH for the exclusive rights to manufacture. Chance Rides will market the R80XL, which is over 250 ft tall, under an affiliate company, Chance American Wheels. The first R80XL wheel was manufactured by Maurer German Wheels in Munich, Germany, the first U. S. version, built by Chance, is expected to be ready for delivery by the beginning of 2014

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Carousel
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A carousel, roundabout, or merry-go-round, is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders. This leads to one of the alternative American names, the galloper, other popular names are jumper, horseabout and flying horses. Sometimes, chairlike or bench seats are used and occasionally mounts can be shaped like aeroplanes or cars. The modern carousel emerged from early jousting traditions in Europe and the Middle East, knights would gallop in a circle while tossing balls from one to another, an activity that required great skill and horsemanship. This game was introduced to Europe at the time of the Crusades from earlier Byzantine, the word carousel originated from the Italian garosello and Spanish carosella. This early device was essentially a cavalry training mechanism, it prepared and strengthened the riders for actual combat as they wielded their swords at the mock enemies. By the 17th century, the balls had been dispensed with, cavalry spectacles that replaced medieval jousting, such as the ring-tilt, were popular in Italy and France. The game began to be played by commoners, and carousels soon sprung up at fairgrounds across Europe, at the Place du Carrousel in Paris, an early make believe carousel was set up with wooden horses for the children. By the early 18th century carousels were being built and operated at various fairs and gatherings in central Europe, makers included Heyn in Germany and Bayol in France. These early carousels had no platforms, the animals would hang from chains and they were often powered by animals walking in a circle or people pulling a rope or cranking. In the United Kingdom, merry-go-rounds usually turn clockwise, while in North America and Mainland Europe, by the mid-19th century the platform carousel was developed, the animals and chariots were fixed to a circular floor that would suspend from a centre pole and rotate around. These carousels were called dobbies and were operated manually by the operator or by ponies, in mid-19th century England, the carousel became a popular fixture at fairs. The first steam-powered mechanical roundabout, invented by Thomas Bradshaw, appeared at the Aylsham Fair in about 1861, the platform served as a position guide for the bottom of the pole and as a place for people to walk or other stationary animals or chariots to be placed. He called this ride the Platform Gallopers and he also developed the platform-slide which allowed the mounts to swing out concentrically as the carousel built up speed. Fairground organs were often present when these machines operated, eventually electric motors were installed and electric lights added, giving the carousel its classic look. These mechanical innovations came at a time, when increased prosperity meant that more people had time for leisure and spare money to spend on entertainment. It was in this context that the modern fairground ride was born. In his 1902 Catalogue for Roundabouts he claimed to have. patented and placed upon the all the principal novelties that have delighted the many thousands of pleasure seekers at home